Silicon Valley Impressions Winter 2016 Celebrating Diversity, and Promoting Community Awareness, Understanding and Inclusiveness The Crime Lab Interviews with Sandhill Property Founder Peter Pau, Dr. Kenneth Fong, and County Supervisor Joe Simitian Bay Area Housing: Crisis and 49er’s STEM Day at the Levi’s® Stadium Opportunities Silicon Valley Arts: Silicon Valley Creates, Gregory and Angie Burns and More... 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Silicon Valley Impressions owns all rights to contributions, text and images, unless previously agreed to in writing. SILICON VALLEY IMPRESSIONS | January 2016 4 SILICONVALLEYIMPRESSIONS.COM CRIME INTELLIGENCE SANTA CLARA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S CRIME LABORATORY Fire test - photo by Supervising Criminalist John Bourke Crime Lab Director Ian Fitch T he mission of the Santa Departments of Campbell, Gilroy, for Julie’s murder, ending his long Clara County District Attorney’s Los Altos, Los Gatos, Milpitas, history of attacks on women. Crime Laboratory is to “provide Morgan Hill, Mountain View, Palo accurate scientific services that Alto, San Jose, and Santa Clara. The Forensic Biology/DNA unit meet the needs of the criminal in The Santa Clara County District justice community in the most In 1991, a 26-year-old accoun- Attoney’s Crime Laboratory has efficient manner possible. The tant named Julie Bucalo was found solved other old cases, some dating Crime Laboratory has earned dead, handcuffed on her waterbed, back to the 1970’s by using today’s and will maintain its reputation inside her locked one-bedroom technology. for impartiality, integrity, and cottage. During the initial investi- excellence through open communi- gation, a security guard who Aside from numerous movies and cation, objective evaluation of worked in the same building as novels relating to solving crime, evidence, and active participation the victim, Ralph Baldenegro, the public actually knows very in the forensic science profession. was brought up on charges, but little about this area of science. We are proud to be advocates for there was no evidence that he was The Crime Laboratory is accred- justice by pursuing truth through present when she was murdered. ited to international standard ISO/ science.” Police pursued other leads, but IEC17025 by the American Society noting solid emerged. It was filed of Crime Laboratory Directors/ The Crime Laboratory is deeply away as a “cold case”. Laboratory Accreditation Board rooted in the community and its (ASCLD/LAB), and has interna- work affects many aspects of the Twenty-three-years later, in 2014, tional accreditation in a multiplicity community. During 2014, a total the case was re-examined. The of disciplines. of 1,586 cases were submitted to biological evidence under the the Crime Laboratory, resulting in victim’s fingernails and from her The Crime Laboratory has many 2,600 criminalistics requests. Cases shirt were linked to Baldenegro. units utilizing various scientific were received from the Police He was finally brought to justice methods to solve crime, including: SILICON VALLEY IMPRESSIONS | January 2016 SILICONVALLEYIMPRESSIONS.COM 5 A crime lab with various equipment The Crime Scene Unit - can be universities, and the California experiments provided knowledge called by any law enforcement Highway Patrol. about what kind of evidence gives agency to be present at a crime forensic results (scientific tests or scene to search for and collect Chemistry/Trace - Since 2009, techniques used in connection with evidence, as well as documenting this laboratory has been active- the detection of crime) follow- the crime. ly working to reestablishing a full ing a fire. This information allows service trace evidence program. In better samples to be submitted to The Forensic Biology/DNA Unit - 2014, analysts completed training the laboratory, making the entire analyses DNA from blood, semen, in both glass and paint analyses. system more efficient. saliva, hair, fingernails, or pieces of Santa Clara County now has one of skin, and compares them with the the most complete trace evidence Digital/Multimedia Evidence Federal Bureau of Investigation’s sections in California. The unit can Unit: With the increased amount DNA database. analyze an assortment of evidence, of computer, financial , and other including hair, fiber, glass, paint, digital crimes, computers have The Comparative Evidence Unit- ignitable liquids, gunshot residue, become important sources of is comprised of the Firearms and and miscellaneous chemicals. evidence. In 2014, due to the wide Latent Print Processing sections. use of cell phones, they too,have The Firearms section compares During 2014, a total of 5,487 cases become a major source in solving firearms to spent ammunition were submitted to this unit from crimes. Digital and Multimedia collected at crime scenes, performs Police Departments in Santa Clara Evidence Unit personnel are distance determinations, calculates County, the Sheriff’s department, trained in data acquisition and bullet trajectories, and recovers California Highway Patrol as well recovery from various devices to serial numbers from firearms. as colleges and universities. see that justice is done. The Toxicology Unit - is respon- Playing with Fire: The trace Camera ready: In August of 2012, sible for determining the level of evidence section, with the 24-year-old Juan Munoz walked alcohol and/or drugs in biological assistance of the Santa Clara into a Safeway supermarket in samples. During 2014, it analyzed County Fire Investigation Task San Jose and never walked out. In a total of 12,211 cases. The labora- force, in January 2014, did a fire the produce section of the store, tory receives blood alcohol, urine experiment to give criminalists the minutes after he arrived, he was alcohol, and drug cases from police opportunity to conduct experiments confronted and fatally stabbed once departments in Santa Clara County, on how different types of evidence by an ex-coworker, 27-year-old as well as the Coroner’s office, react to being exposed to fire. The Michael Howard. The confronta- the Sheriff’s office, colleges and information obtained from the fire tion was caught on video, so there SILICON VALLEY IMPRESSIONS | January 2016 6 SILICONVALLEYIMPRESSIONS.COM was no question of the identity of his shopping, and Munoz, pacing State University graduates about the killer. However, the case hinged the back aisle with the knife in his forty forensic scientists. However, on the intent of the perpetrator. pocket before attacking Howard the Santa Clara County Crime from behind and stabbing him once Laboratory only has three-to-four All surveillance video from in the heart. The jury eventual- positions open each year, which is the store’s forty-three cameras ly found Howard guilty of second typical of most crime labs in the was sent to the Video Analysis degree murder. The video was United States. On top of that, most lab. Criminalist Cordelia Willis invaluable in showing the actual of the local